On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Federico Sevilla III <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow PLUGgers, > > Would anyone know of decently-priced locally-available CCTV systems that > are compatible with Linux for archiving as well as remote viewing and > control? This will be for small-scale deployments -- think SMEs or maybe > small branches of large chains, but we're not looking for something huge > like a mall-wide deployment.
IP Cameras still cost a lot and may not have some important features (cheap, infra red lights, etc.) compared to analog ones. DVRs for analog cameras now have an ethernet port. But to view the video on a browser, you would need an Active-X plugin. So that means you have to use IE. However, the protocol used for most of these devices is rstp so the video can be viewed with: mplayer rtsp://username:passw...@ipofcamera/live/mjpeg Holden _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
